Thursday, June 16, 2005

This morning when I stopped in a small convenience store up the street for an overpriced bottle of water to take with me on my power walk up and down the boardwalk ( 2 miles total), I heard an old song that I hadn't heard in ages which took me all the way back to my 13th year.

For a number of reasons, I have always viewed that year as a pivotal turning point in my life. That was the year that I left boyhood behind and started taking the first few steps down the path that has brought me to where I am today and on the path that I still tread. So, when I hear music from that year, I automatically get reminiscent. The song was “Heaven On The 7th Floor” by Paul Nicholas , which I still love and will hopefully still find a way to move my body to even when I’m a very old man.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

I know this is an old entry of yours, but I see a lot of guys mistake this song for a playful love song about getting some on the elevator, and I usually try to excuse it by saying they probably don't know the actual lyrics.

But you don't have that excuse, because you have the lyrics right there. So, please, ask yourself this: why is he having fun being around a chick who doesn't want to be around him? And why does he think she'll fall in love with him after she already said no, she didn't want to date him? Don't you think it's creepy and stalkerish to think that the girl who just rejected him and doesn't want to be around him is going to fall in love with him just because they're stuck on an elevator together?